The Miro Testing Blog!

In the works, we have another short-cycle planned with a few key fixes. You can expect a call for help with the rc testing in a week or two. However, there are also some major changes going in the development background. Most recently Ben has done a bunch of frontend / backend separation work.

When I dive into the latest nightly build testing, I take a pretty mechanical approach. Does it work? Download? Search? After that I start working on the regression testing either the litmus tests or the Test Cases from the wiki page. Repetitious at times, but I am the QA and it’s my job to get to those hard to reach places.

One of our volunteers, sedatg, mainly a mac user, is also a pretty reliable nightly build tester. However, he has a different approach. He is a truly engaged user and seemingly a vapid consumer of online video. He also seems to suffer from bandwidth limitation.

So his focus when testing is about his experience using Miro to download and watch videos. He uses the irc (irc.freenode.org #miro) to communicate and troubleshoot issues with the developers and other users. He is also active in bugzilla to vote on the tickets that most concern him and communicate ideas and solutions. He claims it’s all self-interest, but whatever, it makes Miro better for all.

Another of our volunteer testers, fluteman also appears download a lot of video. I have imported his OPML channel list, and it is long and well organized. He is more of a conservative tester, usually waiting for a release candidate before moving beyond the stable release. But because of his huge channel list, he regularly manages to push Miro to it’s limits. He finds bugs that maybe not everyone would experience which keeps us on our toes and lets us know what’s lurking.

Over the next few months - we will be implementing changes to improve performance and presentation. And testing will be all about regression, regression, regression.

Biodiversity can be used to measure the health of biological systems. So whether you are a dragojevic, a sedatg, a fluteman or some other unidentified species type. Your unique approach can help maintain the health of Miro.